Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. While the textbook suggests this lesson could take two days, I find that assumption wildly unrealistic.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

According to an article by Occupational Therapy Helping Children, proprioception is often referred to as a sixth sense because it tells the body where it is in space. The article explains: Its very important to the brain, as it plays a large role in self-regulation, coordination, posture, body awareness, focus, and speech.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2011

I also have a couple of apps that supplement the learning done in class through amazing pictures, news articles and even actual magazine clippings. Having the calendar is great because it keeps me organized and helps me to plan what I have to do accordingly. How do you see 3G tablet devices extending learning beyond the classroom?

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Between the students, administrators, parents, and the community, social studies teachers are feeling pressure from all directions. Another trend in social studies education is the emphasis on project-based learning.

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 25, 2025

I thought back to a Friday Check-In I ran months ago: “If I could teach you anything besides social studies, what would you want to learn?” Annotate & Tell: Students read a short article and answered four guiding questions that helped them think about motivations, conflicts, and context. – Jobs.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, current events are a great way to connect your curriculum to the real world and work on social studies skills. Incorporating current events into your social studies lessons can also be a great way to engage students and help them see the relevance of the subject to their own lives.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

If you want to dive deeper, download our free eBook, Rethinking Literacy in K-5 Classrooms: How Social Studies and Science Drive Academic Success. ” Find out how schools can effectively integrate social studies and science into literacy instruction.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

Reading improvement is built into texts about various subjects, such as history, science, and social studies. Scaffolding Up with Studies Weekly This is the reason Studies Weekly offers so many scaffolding opportunities in its Student Editions and Teacher Editions. Comprehension questions follow each online article.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article shows students how one man remained calm and helped others after a hijacked plane struck the South Tower. Add to cart The post Teaching September 11th appeared first on Passion for Social Studies. So, it is crucial to provide background knowledge. September 11th and 9/11 Lesson $ 6.00

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

For instance, students will review The Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Add to cart The post AP Government Review appeared first on Passion for Social Studies. AP Government Foundational Documents Students will love this review! Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. AP Government Amendments $ 10.00

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 30, 2025

Students question the bot like they would a biased newspaper article, a government document, or a historical speech. It reinforces essential social studies skills: sourcing, bias, perspective, and evidence-based reasoning. This turns AI into the text not the shortcut. Why Fray-I works: It puts students in the drivers seat.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. Steve Kohler, a social studies teacher in Sandusky, Ohio, remarks [One-Days] have reinvigorated me as a teacher and given me so much to take back to my students.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This has generated some of the most challenging discussions I’ve seen in my class. — Lena Amick, social studies teacher, Baltimore This widely used lesson was revised last year in collaboration with Taíno community members. I LOVE how “the system of empire” is one of the options for students to blame or defend. Continue reading.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. Social studies was the class I excelled in because it felt most meaningful. Noah Dougherty is the CEO and co-founder of Relevant Learner and a former teacher of social studies and ELA.

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Thrive in Grade Five

JUNE 30, 2019

You’ll notice that the articles cover current events but they also mix in some history-themed articles. Each article has multiple Lexile options, so your higher readers and lower readers can read the same information but at comfortable reading levels. Thanks for reading this article! Never any spam ?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

Embedded within any newspaper article or novel is a vast amount of assumed knowledge that authors take for granted — from the fall of the Soviet Union to the importance of 1776. That shouldn’t be surprising. Just about any student can decode the words “Berlin Wall,” but they need a knowledge of basic geography (where is Berlin?)

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

With each class lasting one week and with teachers coming from all over the country, it’s a bit like a summer camp for social studies teachers! Stevens (Ashland University) Schedule : Monday through Thursday, 6:15 pm to 9:30 pm ET Learn more about what makes us the best graduate program for social studies teachers.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked.

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Division of labor has worked wonders for the production of clothing, computers, and automobiles — but it doesn’t have the same transformational effect on productivity in teaching, a new study by economist Roland G.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

One of my doctoral students’ dissertations at the University of Minnesota , for instance, found that overzealous school filtering prohibited student access to online content essential for satisfying state Social Studies and Health curricular standards. Focusing on superintendents: 5 technology leadership articles from AASA.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I loved my colleagues on my social studies team; we shared resources and supported each other. I would attend a workshop or read an article on a new teaching technique, and I’d be excited about new ideas, but then struggle to find opportunities and resources to implement them. As a result, being a teacher can be lonely.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

article, video, podcast). Debates or Controversial Topics: When discussing controversial issues in a history or social studies class, the teacher could prompt students to reflect on their initial opinions and how exposure to different viewpoints has influenced their perspective.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of my most resourceful students, Sheliya, found an article about the Open Homes project, a program created by Airbnb that offered free emergency housing to displaced people due to natural disasters. Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2016

This article originally appeared on Edutopia. Left to my own devices, wandering the halls of just about any school, I gravitate to the social studies and art project rooms. For more research-based articles on education, visit the Edutopia website. You should know right up front, I’m not a math guy.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

One school in Connecticut reported that many of their teachers had to start the 2022 school year with the basics — showing students how to hold a book, or reviewing the ABCs and letter sounds, according to a 2022 New York Times article by Dana Goldstein. Hogan in the New York Times article. This is where Studies Weekly can help.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Another compared the tone and frequency of New York Times coverage of Harvey Weinstein before and after the emergence of the #MeToo movement, by analyzing every word in every article filed under the Times Topic “Harvey Weinstein.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School social studies teacher. Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? One early K-12 adopter of the Center’s news-literacy lessons was Janis Schachter, a social studies teacher at Northport High School on Long Island.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. Lake started the first class by showing students a collection of photographs, live footage and newspaper articles from 9/11. Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. NORTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

Parents who are curious about what’s included in the curriculum in their child’s classroom can find sources online, like a chart included in an article by Readingrockets.org which summarizes the various aspects of literacy, including phonics, writing and comprehension strategies, in some of the most popular reading curricula.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 27, 2024

We live in a digital world where a social studies teacher can now access a vast array of sources from across the globe to add to an inquiry. In fact, what is there to investigate if there are no sources? Of course I am not suggesting that teachers out there are not even assigning sources to their students. On the contrary.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Everybody in the room—we’re all social studies teachers who feel we’re experts in history—we all thought, ‘No, that’s stupid.’ Then the introduction of TV cameras in congressional chambers allowed junior legislators to subvert the authority of party leaders even further. Politics became more performative than constructive.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

For example, in the ‘COW Project ’— a collaborative initiative between three of our districts that is profiled here — teams of educators produced new Social Studies and Science unit content entirely from OER. Increasingly, ‘early mover’ districts support OER at a district level, to reflect constraints on teacher time.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them. To read more research-based articles on education, visit Usable Knowledge. 2 McBeath, J.,

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Engaging Students with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Sep 06, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker: Elizabeth Spasiano, 3rd Grade Teacher, NJ Elizabeth Spasiano: The reasons that I love using Social Studies Weekly as the teacher are really three-fold. The other reason that I love Social Studies Weekly is the materials.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

Instead, we’ll provide you with the materials and education you need to teach the complex and sensitive topics that always come up in the secondary social studies classroom. Unlike textbooks, we won’t tell you what to teach or how to teach it.

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